S812 Android based with recent Kodi v15.0 and some v14 will show 1/4 screen in full screen movie on a 720P TV.

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hi all
I've downloaded the recent Kodi from kodi.tv for my Android S812 . Both devices purchased from Acemax . one is M8S and another is S806 (yes: by CNX).
The problem is that Kodi menus are well positioned but once getting into movie full screen , it will show the top left corner of the movie (subtitles and other overlay menus are still good).

One solution I found is to edit the xml discriptors and switch to another Android player : but then I loose the subtitles menus and such.
Kodi forum suggests disabling amlogic codec but this will stop the player from showing movies.

I must say this never happens on my OpenElec .

Android MBoxSetting HDMI is set to auto (or manual): 720p@60Hz but Kodi-->System-> SystemInfo --> says 1920x1080 .
As if Kodi doesn't read the Android screen size correctly.

opening the movie file in the build in Android movie player works just OK.so its something with Kodi source.

Any other solution ?

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some reference to : http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?...357#pid2011357

I can confirm this fixes the problem (required some SSH knowledge and rooting)
run in terminal:
chmod 666 /sys/class/display/mode
chmod 666 /dev/amvideo
chmod 666 /dev/amstream*
chmod 666 /sys/class/video/axis
chmod 666 /sys/class/video/screen_mode
chmod 666 /sys/class/video/disable_video
chmod 666 /sys/class/tsync/pts_pcrscr
chmod 666 /sys/class/audiodsp/digital_raw
chmod 666 /sys/class/ppmgr/ppmgr_3d_mode

and I didn't even had to reboot Android. simply restart XBMC.
ofir, I'm glad it helped.

[Dandroid534]

Download universal init.d app, turn it on, reboot, then delete everythinng, then edit testinit.d

Chmod 666 /sys/class/display/mode
Chmod 666 /dev/amvideo 666 system/system
Chmod 666 /dev/amstream_mpts 666 system/system
Chmod 666 /sys/class/video/axis 666 media/system
Chmod 666 /sys/class/video/screen_mode 666 media/system
Chmod 666 /sys/class/video/disable_video 664 media/system
Chmod 666 /sys/class/tsync/pts_pcrscr 666 media/system
Chmod 666 /sys/class/audiodsp/digital_raw 666 system/system
Chmod 666 /sys/class/ppmgr/ppmgr_3d_mode 666 root/root


This will then run on every boot.

I was having problems with laggy 1080p on mxiii on kodi 15.2

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actually this was fixed in Kodi 15.2 . so no need for special steps anymore.

[JustMe]

yes isengaurd No need anymore for root/SU preveliges